Id have to say Jet Set Radio has one of the best music on any game, unlike most game music I can stand listen to it anywere and not just in the game!

the music from sonic 2 was so wonderful i breifly considered doing a cover album of it
but then i realised this was a bad idea.

Ive fallen in love with the JRock band Guitar Vader..... they make 2 songs on Jet Set Radion :D ive allready made a cd or their songs to listen to while at college :)

Vib Ribbon.

It's love.

yea looks pretty cool being able to put ur own music in :)

I thought the music in FF7 was pretty damn good - must have been a real orchestra I reckon. And fighting that boss to Aeris' theme music immediately after she died was just sheer cruelty on Square's part, such was its gravity (er, or something).

However, in terms of pure cheesy digital greatness, I'd have to say the map music from the first world in SMB3. Yes.

Seconded.

Also, Jet Force Gemini has pretty good music - fully orchestral, I think

If I see the words "best game music" and "Final Fantasy 7" ever, I'll phooking scream like a man watch his child get mauled by a train.

I vote Gitaroo Man. Maaaaan.

"best game music" and "Final Fantasy 9"

I'm with Kid Chameleon, Parappa the Rapper, Half-Life, NiGHTs, and...Sonic 2?

Don't hit me!

JET SET RADIO! Guitar Vader rock!!

hell yeah sonic 2!
it was almost a pleasure dying so many times on metropolis, cause i just got to listen to that liquid funk over and over....
ooooooh sonic

Much of the music in "Zombies Ate My Neighbors"... Particularly the music from Level 4: "Chainsaw Hedgemaze Mayhem".

Also, Lemmings. The "Ten Green Lemmings" one especially.

i had a drum'n'bass version of one of the tunes from lemmings, but i thinnk i deleted it :angry:

All these:
Playstation Doom (most atmospheric music...ever)
ICO (ok. the good bit is for about 15 seconds during the end sequence, but it is very good)
Rez (well, level 1 and 5)
Wip3out
Tomb Raider 1
ToeJam & Earl :)

Ecco The Dolphin is probably my favourite, mind.

also i should add chrono trigger
that game has fantastic music
and it's a damn fine game. mmmmmmmm.

Bah I was away and everyone stole my picks!

Banjo-Kazooie/Tooie has great music, as did Conkey's BFD. And GoldenEye and most things that Rare do.

Smash Bros. Melee was excellent too; Fountain of Dreams :o


giant_frying_pan

Castlevania: Symphony of The Night
Suikoden I and II
Silent Hill
Metal Gear Solid Ending Theme

Konami has great musicians working for them.

As for the oldies:

Hero Quest (Spectrum/Amiga)
Lucasarts Games: Secret of the Monkey Island I, II and Curse (if you like reggae)

And the winner for best game music ever goes to:

Castlevania X - SNES.

The Clocktower and TeeVee Wonderland pieces from Harlequin were excellent, and also all the in-game tunes from Apidya, which you can still buy on a spiffingly lovely CD from the original composer.

Otherwise my experience of in-game music is pretty limited, as I generally just turn it off without ever having listened to it. Although the Zerg pieces from Starcraft were reasonably atmospheric the first few times.

SNES F-Zero

YOU'RE ALL WRONG. Apart from those of you who have suggested things that correspond with my own suggestions. Which are (minus the ones that I've forgotten and reserve the right to add with a sneaky edit later):

Secret of Mana. Almost consistently brilliant. Chrono Trigger was cracking as well. The music, that is.

The ingame tune in Space Harrier. Welcome to the Fantasy Zone. Get
Ready!

The first level in the original Virtual On.

Jacky's Stage in Virtua Fighter.

Dire, Dire Docks from Mario 64. And the ending music.

Tempest 2000. Yes.

The Robocop title screen music on the 128k Spectrum. By Jonathan Dunn - along with the smashing (but not quite as worthy of a mention) Chase HQ and WEC Le Mans music. And anyone who says the C64 versions were better is CLEARLY WRONG.

Cammy's stage in Super SF2. I don't know why I like it. I JUST DO.

The WaveRace 64 title screen. It's so relaxing. Until you're obliged to call out "WAVERACE!" along with the announcer at the conclusion.

Mystic Cave Zone in Sonic 2 on the Megadrive. Although only in single player mode- it went all terrible in 2 player. The Emerald Hill two-player was nice though.

NiGHTS. Apart from the nails-drawn-down-blackboard level of irritation delivered by the flatness of Claris and Elliot singing the title theme. The ingame stuff was lovely though- reacting and altering itself thusly on subsequent replays to your performance.

Spiderman and the X-Men title screen. On SNES obv. The MD version sort of
lost what made the original great. By being awful. Tim Follin is always good though.

Other miscellaneous stuff includes: all of Daytona USA (ALL OF IT), the Magicland Dizzy title screen on 128k Spectrum (the game itself being terrible, mind), Monkey Island 2, all of Parodius on the Saturn, the original Ridge Racer tunes, the first level in Goldeneye, F-Zero (although not F-Zero X with its dreadful rawk remixes of the originals. Apart from the Big Hand theme. Which bucks the trend by being excellent) and CastleVania 4. And Dracula X while I'm at it.

bloody hell.

(but yeah, chrono trigger. every second of music in that game is brilliant)

Hello, I'm back again - after a long period of no-Digi-ness.

Best soundtracks, eh?

I've recently downloaded Metroid Prime's one. It really is superb, and, thankfully, doesn't ruin the classic Super Metroid music. How awful would a standard rock soundtrack have been? This awful: 98%. Tallon Overworld, Phendrana Rifts, Underwater Frigate Reactor Core (lovely ambient pianoy goodness), and Chozo Ruins are my favourites.

I've bought The Wind Waker, too, which cost me a stupid amount of money. It was (possibly) worth it, though - it's a great CD. Yeah, the instruments sometimes smell of Midi, but who cares? It doesn't make it any less good.

Wizball. The soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous. The Atari sounndtrack of the game is alright, but the C64 one is the "daddy".

Rez, obv. All the tracks are great, Gex*, not just 1 and 5. Personal favourites: Rock is Sponge and Creation State of Art. And, of course, Adam Freeland's 'Fear' is also brilliant. Don's Magical Adventure Edit (the one in the game) is better than the Rez Edit (the one on the soundtrack CD, I think).

More goodies: Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2. 2 is better, though. The 'Ice' theme makes me weep. F-Zero (again, obv). Adam's Family 2 (SNES) also has a worth OST. Not many tracks, but what's there is good. And it was the hardest game in existence. Sim City (SNES). Perfect soundtrack, easily one of the best on the SNES. Download the SPC files from www.zophar.net now, you fools.

Stephen is right on a lot of counts: Secret Of Mana is one of the best. Mario 64 has good things, especially the ending. Same with Mario Kart 64. Best ending music ever.

Anything by Tim Follin, Ben Daglish and most stuff by Mat Furniss. Such as LED Storm, Deflektor and Escape From The Planet Of the Robot Monsters respectively.

:ph43r:

I can't beleave none of you guys mentioned viewpoint. Some really ace beats inclueding the break from pump me up on the credit screen. Orcaria of time was very good. Pinball dreams had realy good music to. Esp the nightmare table. Oh and the chaos enginge and that tune you got before loading gods.

There are, indeed, lots of cracking game-songs here, but I'm disappointed that the title music from Yoshi's Island hasn't been mentioned.

I think the map music is better, but then, everything about the game is great. It's one of the very, very, very few perfect games I have ever come across.


giant_frying_pan

What about MDK, eh?

And to the guy that said FF-VII had a real orchestra: you have no ears.

How can this thread have got so far without anyone suggesting Bubble Bobble? Ting, ting ta ting, ting ting ta-ree, ting ting ta ting...bom Bom BOM! Do do doo, da do do doo, da do do, do do doo! Da da dum dum dum da dum dee dum, da dum dum da dum dee! Do do do do (do do do do)...and so on.

Also the title music from the Amiga version of Rodland (which is in the arcade version, but on one of the levels instead, or on the title screen for the secret graphics version. Or something). Da diddly dum, da diddly dum, da diddly diddly diddly dum da dee! [...] Da dum! Da da dum! Da da dee, da da dee! Dum! Da da dum! Da da dum! Da da dee dee! Doodle...

Im shuffleing away very slowly and nervusly.

Indeed I vastly prefer Yoshi's story to 2d mario. It's a lot less frustraiting and has loads of scope for really skillful play. With the crate game and the broad jump ect. And I like Yoshi as a charecter better than mario. Ah man do you think they'll ever be a new Yoshi game. But the bosses where rubbish though. Now if they got together with the people that made gun star heros. Oh shit Im drooling now.

Clearly the best wideo jame music is that of the popular in the eighties 'Skate or Die'. Clearly.

Shadow of the Beast 2 had the most soothing title screen music there ever was. And when you died, you were treated to a guitar solo.


-Rowan

I was only singing, man.

I'm not going to sing the The New Zealand Story song to you now. Spoilsport.

Most square games (The FF series, chrono trigger), and Quake II come to mind.

IIRC, of the couple of hundred musics of FFVII, only one or two were done live, the rest were some sort of pseudo-midi.

Quake II!

I hold that game's soundtrack responsible for a particularly dark period of my teens, where I donned a black hoodie and started listening to Slipknot.

I dare say it would've happened anyway, but it's nice to have an excuse of some sort nonetheless.

:o

You had better be joking!

Sadly, I'm not.

It was a Radiohead hoodie, though.